The National Medical Insurance Administration issued a notice that the new coronavirus nucleic acid test and antigen test will further reduce the price

Today, the National Medical Insurance Administration issued the "Notice of the Medical Rescue Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic by the Office of the National Medical Security Administration and the State Council on Further Reducing the Prices of New Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Testing and Antigen Testin.

Below is the full text of the notice:

Notice of the Medical Rescue Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic by the Office of the National Medical Security Administration and the State Council on Further Reducing the Prices of Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Testing and Antigen Testing

Medical Insurance Office issued [2022] .

All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps shall respond to the joint prevention and control mechanism (leading group, headquarters) and medical security bureaus for the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic:

In order to implement the requirements for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, cooperate with large-scale screening and normalized testing, and reduce the burden on the public and social costs, the relevant matters on further reducing the price of new coronavirus nucleic acid testing and antigen testing in medical institutions are hereby notified as follo.

Further lowering the government-guided price of nucleic acid testing for the new coronavirus in public medical institutio.

Further lowering the government-guided price for COVID-19 antigen testing in public medical institutio.

The government-guided prices for new coronavirus nucleic acid testing and antigen testing formulated by various provinces are all price ceilings, and the actual charging standards of public medical institutions shall not go up or do.

The medical insurance departments of all provinces refer to the existing online purchase prices across the country, and before June 10, organize and implement centralized procurement, bidding on the Internet, participation in inter-provincial alliance procurement, regional price comparison and other methods to make public Medical institutions can reduce the cost of amplification reagents, extraction reagents, sampling equipment and other materials required for new crown nucleic acid detection to less than 40% of the price of a single test for a single pers.

Public medical institutions that provide nucleic acid testing services for the new coronavirus should provide two service options: single-person single-checking and multiple-person mixed-checking servic.

Provinces should complete the price adjustment before June 10, 202 Other matters related to reducing the price of nucleic acid testing and antigen testing for new coronavirus in public medical institutions shall be implemented in accordance with the documents of Medical Insurance Ban Fa [2021] .

This notice takes effect from the date of issuan.

Office of the National Medical Security Administration

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